Sunday, September 10, 2006

I was sad to learn this weekend that Family Man's mother (Family Mom) fell in their hotel room during a trip they made to Little Rock to visit a relative in the hospital there. Apparently she fractured her shoulder in the fall and also suffered some minor injuries to the face ... according to the last I read, she is recovering well, though a fall for anyone of her age is always a reason for some concern. I know, that with my hip injury from a few years ago, I dread such episodes myself, so it was even more distressing for me to hear about this episode.

So this is my small way of hoping I can cheer both of them up a bit with some saucy, bright Convolvulus from our front garden ... I hope their cheery yellow and white centers will brighten their day a bit and help put this unfortunate occurrence behind them!

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IVG thank you so much for the well wishes, good thoughts and the flowers. Now that I have wireless, I'll take this in and show FMom. I'm sure it will brighten her day and bring a smile to her as it did me.

No apologies necessary for the date stamp. Actually if it was right, I would be saying we need to set up a booth somewhere and have you read the future for people. :)

Hi Far, glad you stopped by! I tried that last night several times and it still refused to change it so I just gave up! Thanks for the tip though ... any others you have to demystify the quirkiness of blogger will be appreciated too! (btw, I need to get you on the blogroll!)

Howdy again, FM! Well I'm glad to hear I helped cheer up your day down there, as that was my intent. Sometimes I actually get the result I aim for, lol.

Just let me know if FMom would like any more flowers and I'll put something together for her... I still need to get a lot more Zinnia pictures taken before they start winding down, so maybe a virtual digital bouquet is in order... hmm, let me work on what we've still got going out there.

Oh yeah, and Olivia, I need to get on those morning glories again ... they've got the fence covered in pink and purple!

Update for Far...Glory be! Blogger cooperated tonight when I went to go change the time/date stamp. Thanks again for the reminder/tip, and woo hoo, I've got you on the blogroll now! I'll be stopping by more often now...

I depend heavily on RSS these days to see which blog-buddies have updates. It's nice having a browser (Safari) where that functionality is built-in; I just have to hit the Blogs menu in the bookmark bar & it shows who and how many. ;-)

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Welcome to our little corner of the Plant Universe!

I started Urban Oasis almost three years ago with the intent of both chronicling the seasonal changes of our gardens, as well as to serve as a kind of "rough draft" for a gardening book I've been wanting to write for about six years now. Well, the book remains unwritten, but readers will still find in these pages, the seeds of what it may eventually become when I'm gifted with adequate time and resources to really apply myself to writing it....

When we moved into our house in 1998, (affectionately dubbed Casa IVG), it was a practically barren garden canvas just waiting to be reborn. Our urban transformation project began in earnest in Spring 1999, and continues to this day, with some major changes occurring along the way (such as the boulder beds in 2003) ... and the evolution continues to this day.

Urban Oasis itself has evolved too, from its original exclusive focus on the plants to postings on some of my other more personal interests, such as Politics, International and Independent Cinema, and one of the enduring passions of my life: our dogs. 2008 was a year of many transitions for us, the saddest of which was the loss of our beloved Pepa and Rolly in December.

But, as in any garden worth its petals, we are now experiencing a joyous renewal with the recent adoption of our new pup, Hanna, who will be appearing regularly here as the seasons progress. She'll never truly replace Pepa as the official "mascot" of the blog, but she's an eager "intern" who will go far in filling the enormous paw prints left behind by her predecessor ... and fill them well, she will!

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